Project Lead, Healthcare, Healthcare Management

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Band 7 Project Manager, Ageing Well Angus

Fixed Term/Secondment 18 months

Are you an innovative Occupational Therapist with a passion for prevention, re‑ablement, and helping people live well at home for longer? Do you enjoy leading changes, shaping services, and bringing evidence and lived experience together to design better support for older adults? If so, this could be the role for you.

Angus Health & Social Care Partnership (AHSCP) is seeking a highly skilled Occupational Therapist to take forward a major strategic development:
Ageing Well Angus. This is an exciting opportunity to lead transformational work that strengthens prevention, proactive care, community support, and healthy ageing across Angus.

This Band 7 post is a unique blend of Occupational Therapy expertise and project leadership. As Project Manager for Ageing Well Angus, you will:

• Lead the development, delivery and evaluation of improvement projects supporting ageing well
• Use your OT knowledge of functional cognition, occupation, environment, and enablement to shape strategic priorities
• Work closely with people, carers, community partners, frontline teams and managers
• Influence service redesign, pathway development and innovation across AHSCP
• Provide project governance, planning, risk assessment, and reporting
• Facilitate workshops, engagement sessions, co‑design events and stakeholder groups
• Champion an occupation‑centered, prevention‑focused approach across health, council and third sector partners

The role sits within the Occupational Therapy Service, reporting to the Clinical Lead for OT and working alongside AHP colleagues within health and council OT services, social care, housing, primary care and community partners. We are seeking an OT with the right skills and experience to support the project. Ageing well is fundamentally about participation, purpose, routines, roles and independence and functional cognition, environmental fit, adaptations and enablement are central to maintaining wellbeing.

OT brings a distinctive lens to prevention, risk enablement, and designing pathways that reflect people’s real‑world functional abilities. OT skills ensure service change is grounded in what genuinely helps people live well r professional reasoning will help shape strategy, redesign services, and influence decision‑making right across the system.

• Has significant clinical experience with adults and older people
• Understands the physical, cognitive and psychosocial dimensions of ageing
• Has confidence in analysing occupation, function, environment and risk
• Has experience in service improvement, redesign or transformation
• Communicates with clarity, influence and credibility
• Enjoys collaborative work and creative thinking
• Is passionate about prevention, proactive care and reducing health inequalities
• Project or improvement training (QI, PRINCE2, Lean) is welcome but not essential — support will be provided.

• Opportunity to lead a high‑profile strategic programme
• Supportive OT leadership and AHP network
• Strong culture of innovation, quality improvement and partnership working
• Career development in project management, population health and strategic influence
• Hybrid working where appropriate, with flexibility around bases across Angus

If you are an Occupational Therapist who wants to shape the future of ageing well in Angus, we would love to hear from you.

Informal enquiries to:
Allison Taylor, OT Team Manager  or Susan Petrie, OT Clinical Lead susan.petrie2t

Hours of work are: 37 (part‑time would be considered)

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